Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Plants as a grand division of nature. Compare
Primalia .
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Geographia plantarum vincula et cognationem tradit, quibus omnia vegetabilia inter se connexa sint, terraetractur quos teneant, in aerem atmosphaericum quae sit eorum vis ostendit, saxa atque rupes quibus potissimum algarum primordiis radicibusque destruantur docet, et quo pacto in telluris superficie humus nascatur, commemorat.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Natural History of _Brasil_, where he says, _Porro præter tot documenta fertilitatis circa vegetabilia & sensitiva marina telluris æmula, accidit & illud, quod paucis à Paranambucensi milliaribus, piscatoris uncum citra intentionem contingat infigi vadis petrosis, & loco piscis spongia, coralla, aliasque arbusculas marinas capi.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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(Fungos non vegetabilia, sed pseudo-zoo-lithophyta! esse crédit.).
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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Itaque hi, antecedentium fuf* fulti cognitione intentioribus oculis herbas indagan - tes, minutiores etiam obfervare non erubuerunt Hinc Mufci sque ac reliqua vegetabilia in or - dinem funt reda6li.
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1790
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ALKAri vegetabile nitratum (Nitrum prif - maticum) in fuperficie telluris oritur, ubi vegetabilia, praefertim partibus animaUbus mixta, putrefcendo deftruuntur, Bafis al - kalina herbis antea ineft, * fed acidi gcnefis hadenus minus eft manifefta, utrum nempc
Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti Torbern Bergman 1783
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*: calent4 in pultem difHuunti vegetabilia recentia
Joan. Ant. Scopoli ... Fvndamenta Chemiae praelectionibvs pvblicis accomodata Giovanni Antonio Scopoli 1777
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Quo fa6tum eft, ut pleraque Europs regna fuis gaudeant pulchre ela« boratis Floris, quse incolis indicarent plantarum Speciesy intra patriam fua fponte nafcentes, Loca rarionim Natalia, Solum (ingulis gratum aptumque» unde infuper haud dubia alfequi conjeftura liceat quaenam cum qusftu in patriam invefta cceluni folumque ferrent peregrina vegetabilia ac Iste hic vigerent.
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788
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